For people not already into distributed systems but want to get started, I blogged my (very) short list of things to read last year [1]. Today I would add a fi

For people not already into distributed systems but want to get started, I blogged my (very) short list of things to read last year [1]. Today I would add a fifth item to that list: "Why Logical Clocks are Easy", which is one of the best explanations of causality I have seen so far [2]. [1] https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2015-07-07-four-easy-reads-distsys.html https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2015-07-07-four-easy-reads... [2] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2917756 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2917756